All IPE articles in November 2002 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Portugal goes on hold
The start of the year in Portugal was marked by political uncertainties marked by the resignation of prime minister António Guterres following local election defeats. This, added to the disappointing performance in the financial markets and the unhealthy Portuguese economy, has resulted in a difficult period for the development of ...
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Going regional to go global
Recently, Angelien Kemna took the paradoxical step at ING Investment Management of changing her role from global CIO to that of European CIO and at the same time CEO, sharing the rest of the globe with her opposite numbers in the US and Asia-Pacific. A move made so the group, ...
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Getting a grip on markets
Rick Lacaille, head of the structured product group at State Street Global Advisors is optimistic about the long-term growth prospects for indexing across the Europe – despite the current market turmoil. For Lacaille, the gradual shift by European pension funds from fixed income into equity is part of the same ...
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Tasters of world fund styles
o The Merrill Lynch Global Equity Fund currently has more than half of its $302.3m in assets invested in US stocks. But because the fund takes a bottom-up approach to stock selection, says Graham Bamping, retail investment director at Merrill Lynch Investment Management, geographical distribution is not the driving force ...
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Foundation of future strategies
The growth of securities indexing has been one of the most significant investment trends over the past decade. In times of bear markets its value is regularly questioned, but indexation has an established place in institutional investment and continues to develop as a tool for investors. So what has been ...
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Expectations management
There’s nothing wrong with pension funds per se, according to EFRP chairman Alan Pickering, rather it’s our outdated expectations of what they ought to deliver. Falling markets, increasing longevity, lower birth rates and annuity level have done no more than show the unsustainability of retirement levels. “People around the world ...
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Euro-zone could be weakest link
Historically, there has been a rather close relationship between the relative performance of US equities against bonds and the year on year change of the OECD leading indicator. This should not come as a surprise because, after all, the behaviour of investors is, to some extent, a function of their ...
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Where ETFs fit portfolios
Exchange-traded funds have been one of the success stories of the last decade. These neatly packaged products, which give the performance of an entire index in a single stock, have grown in popularity with retail and institutional investors alike since they came into existence. Like an index fund, they give ...
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Factors in global equity success
Experience and a pragmatic approach are the critical factors in boosting relative performance for global equity managers according to the latest analysis of offshore based funds, published by Standard & Poor’s Fund Research. In the current bear market, few global equities fund managers have experienced such a protracted recession. Long ...
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Dublin surge
Assets in alternative investment funds domiciled in Dublin have increased to $10.8bn from $3.1bn one year ago, according to investment fund research company Fitzrovia International. Fitzrovia highlights the attraction of Dublin as a centre for cash funds with fund assets rising by 60% to $117.3 bn from $73.2bn one year ...
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Turning down the volume
Pension funds and their consultants are wary of hedge funds, largely because they cannot pigeonhole them into any of the traditional asset classes, and therefore find them difficult to benchmark. As a result, they have tended to approach them through the multi-manager route, rather than directly. By apportioning a mandate ...
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